BBC public purposes

October 27, 2025

Omissions in BBC report on Rubio press conference

On October 24th the BBC News website published a report by Hugo Bachega and Raffi Berg headlined “...

October 15, 2025

BBC News continues to undermine its own reporting with redundant narratives

As readers no doubt recall, when the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) d...

August 22, 2025

The BBC’s selective editorial policy on ‘Palestine Action’ continues

As we all too often have cause to note on these pages, the ‘public purposes’ set out in the Roya...

August 10, 2025

BBC prioritises Hizballah messaging in Lebanon report

In November 2024 a ceasefire was agreed between Israel and Lebanon in order to end the hostilities w...

June 11, 2025

BBC News prioritises ‘aid yacht’ propaganda over factual information

Visitors to the BBC News website on the morning of June 9th found no fewer than three items relating...

March 9, 2025

Arab League talking points go unchallenged on two BBC platforms

The March 5th edition of the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme included an item (from 2:45:41 here)Â...

February 27, 2025

Why doesn’t the BBC tell the story behind its ‘permanent ceasefire’ framing?

In recent weeks visitors to the BBC News website have seen repeated promotion of the notion of a “...

December 3, 2024

BBC audiences once again hear ‘genocide’ disinformation

One of the five public purposes set out in the BBC’s charter includes the obligation to “help co...

October 13, 2024

BBC News website documentation of weapons in southern Lebanon

As readers may have already noticed, the BBC’s abundant coverage of events in Lebanon during the p...

July 14, 2024

Looking behind a BBC World Service radio news bulletin

Listeners to the first hour of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘OS’ on July 5th heard a ne...